The court sealed off the Milupa Ice-cream Factory at Nimtala Residential Area near Port Connection Road in Bandar Police Station, seized one-and-half maund of adulterated ice-cream and juice and arrested factory owner Aminul Haq Talikder, 50, and supervisor Jahangir Alam, 32. The court handed down six months of imprisonment to Aminul and one month in jail to Jahangir and fined each of them Tk 30 thousand.

Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) magistrate Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, who conducted the drive, found that the factory owner had long been using substandard chemicals, powder, milk, sugar and other ingredients to manufacture ice cream and juice with different brand names such as Eagle Coolfi, Lolly Orange, Chalk Bar, Banana Ice-cream and Special Mango Centre.

Magistrate Munir in separate drives yesterday fined Tk one lakh to M/S MM Corporation, a contractor firm of Chittagong Water and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) for supplying substandard aluminium sulphate to Was Mohra Water Treatment Plant.

The court in another drive at Saltgola Crossing in Bandar PS fined a total of Tk 1,10,000 to New Cafe Shukkur, BSC Marine Workshop Canteen and New Karim Hotel and Restaurant for their unhygienic interiors and keeping food items in open space without any covers.

Separate cases were filed in these connections.